It is important that security program objectives and controls are supported by the company’s leadership, business units, peer groups, partners and personnel from the top down. Business processes exist to drive revenue-generating activities. Applications are used to reduce the level of effort and mistakes associated with repeatable tasks, and these applications and supporting infrastructure must […]
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set out with an ambitious goal: to change the way the world’s unbanked communities access money. Current digital payment systems exclude those in developing nations and those living in poverty without bank accounts and smart phones. The foundation engaged Crosslake to lead a team of developers from four separate […]
Seattle, WA – January 9, 2019 Why is software so prone to bugs and vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software development really that hard, or are software developers just not that good at it? In his latest book Published by MIT Press, The Problem with Software: […]
At Crosslake, we often get asked by people who do not have a deep technical background, “How do I measure the effectiveness of our software development team without understanding the technical details?” Investors acquiring software companies (e.g., private equity firms) and other less-technical leaders in a software organization often don’t know where to start. In […]
In Part 1 of this post, “scalability” was defined and scalability issues with the software itself were described. In Part 2, we look at evaluating infrastructure for scalability (i.e., anti-patterns that commonly affect scale). The scale is primarily accomplished vertically Because of anti-patterns previously discussed, adding new application or database servers may be difficult. If […]
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